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Leadership is not a skill problem — it’s an identity journey. The final episode brings the series together around one central question: who are you becoming as you lead — and what will it cost if nothing changes?

Most leadership growth happens in disappointment, not success. This episode reframes failure, loss, and unmet expectations as leadership formation moments — and shows why resilience is built through reality, not results.

In a metrics-driven, AI-accelerating world, leadership risks becoming efficient but less human. This episode challenges leaders to hold performance and dignity together — and explains why empathy and presence are now strategic, not soft.

Learning adds — unlearning costs. This episode examines why experience can become a leadership liability, how certainty hardens into blind spots, and why teachability and humility are now core leadership strengths.

Many leaders are performing leadership instead of practicing presence. This episode explores why busyness, polish, and constant output are eroding trust — and why presence, not performance, is becoming leadership’s most powerful differentiator.

The leadership traits that built your success — certainty, control, speed, confidence — may now be quietly limiting your impact. This episode names the outdated leadership myth many are still following and why the future demands a reset, not an upgrade.

In this episode I am chatting with a super young leader, Keisha Gani, who was born and raised in Sri Lanka. Keisha is an emerging leader who is now working as the Acting Country Manager at SHE Investments, a social enterprise based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Keisha is passionate about creating opportunities for other young leaders to challenge traditional leadership models, try new things, fail, and learn from their mistakes - after all, that's the only way to grow! We chat about opportunity and permission, challenging traditional leadership models, imposter syndrome and releasing that special 'gift' in a person that sets them apart. www.sheinvestments.com

In this episode, I am chatting with Blue West, a vulnerable, creative and colourful young leader from Sydney. Blue is a facilitator at 'The Man Cave', a charity organisation designed in delivering programs of Emotional Intelligence Skills to youth, in particular boys. Blue has had a spectrum of professional and personal experience in Leadership and Well-being across Australia and is an advocate for mental health and Queer inclusion for people of all ages. I have personally known Blue his whole life, and it was exciting to connect with them in this podcast. We chat about the power of shame, trusting and knowing yourself, owning your story and whole lot more. An honest, raw and insightful conversation, with another incredible young leader. www.themancave.life

In this episode I am chatting with Lou Keck, an incredible, insightful and generous young leader with more than a decade's experience working with individuals and groups to overcome challenges. Lou is the Head of Participation at the Reach Foundation, an organisation she has been heavily involved with since she experienced her first workshop aged 16, 13 years ago. Lou is a trained facilitator and has spent the last decade working with groups of all ages to develop their leadership, sense of resilience and connection. As the Head of Participation, Lou now works to ensure Reach has the funding it needs to be able to impact 50,000 young people every year, and sits on the organisation’s senior leadership team. www.reach.org.au

In this episode, I am chatting with Molly Taylor from London, UK. Molly is a young changemaker with a passion for the charity sector. She has worked in the non-profit sector and volunteered for a variety of organisations with the hopes of making a difference in the world. It’s a wonderful conversation covering a number of topics related to learning leadership by doing it as you go. An inspiring, resilient and captivating young leader.

In this episode I am chatting with an incredible human being & young leader, Harry Morton from Sydney, Australia. “If there’s one thing that drives everything in my life and every action I take, it’s people. Connecting with people, understanding them, supporting them & learning from them. From my involvement training and working with young people at the Reach Foundation as a teenager, studying the art of Journalism at University (spoiler: I never went on to become a Journo), to now working in the People & Culture team of a global tech scale-up, I’ve been exposed to some incredible leaders. Leaders who always saw the person first and the position or the outcome second. It’s this approach that has inspired me most in my relatively short experience of the world.” www.mypassglobal.com

In this episode, I am chatting with Olivia Hough from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Olivia was the Managing Director at Impact Hub Phnom Penh in Cambodia for 4 years, considered one of the biggest and most active communities of impact-driven youth entrepreneurs in the country in Cambodia. Under her leadership, the team grew from 6 to 15, and IHPP continues to have high employee retention rates in part due to their energising and positive team culture. Olivia is also passionate about positive psychology, mental health, and the arts. She runs an initiative called ‘The Happiness Project Cambodia’ where she leads workshops on different wellbeing themes, and has run workshops on wellbeing for entrepreneurs, changemakers and NGOs across South East Asia.

In this episode I am chatting with an inspiring young leader, Kimhour. He is currently the leadership trainer at Cambodian Children's Fund in Phnom Penh, where he trains, mentors and equips impoverished high school students with leadership skills and behaviour. His story is inspiring, and we chat about mentoring, being grateful, overcoming limiting thoughts and believing in yourself.  www.cambodianchildrensfund.org

In this episode, I am chatting with Emmett Graham from Melbourne. Emmett was probably what you could call the “typical leader” in high school; Good grades, the school captain, involved in numerous sports teams and music bands. Although after graduating, in an attempt to get away from everything “typical”, he spent all his savings on a 1984 campervan and travelled around the east coast of Australia. He spent a lot of time surfing or playing gigs (mostly so he could afford food or fuel to get to the next town!), but he also spent a lot of time meeting and speaking with so many different people. What was meant to be a fun trip after VCE became an experience that fostered a love for making connections with people, especially when those connections led to conversations about who we are and who we want to be. Since then, Emmett has spent five years working and studying to learn more about those two questions; who are we, and who do we want to be? He received an undergraduate degree, majoring in Psychology, from the University of Melbourne. Through his involvement with organisations like The Reach Foundation, Batyr and Headspace, he has worked to design and deliver programs for over 100 000 young people across Australia. Currently, he is studying his Honours in Psychology with the hope to one day run a clinical practice of his own where anyone can come to explore who they are and who they want to be.  www.reach.org.au

Matt Destry is a husband, father, storyteller, artist and co-senior minister with his wife Jody at thriving community of faith. Matt holds a multitude of leadership spaces in tension and carries a leadership style that focuses on transformation leadership through individual’s recognition of socio-historical facets of one's journey. Matt upholds team collaboration and co-operation through one-on-one mentorship, coaching, team leading and encouraging leaders to build and grow to harvest vision in creative, restorative and suitable ways. Organisation Details: discoverychurch.com.au